Building Our Children's Future (4-6)

Contact Information

Mailing Address: 127 North Higgins, Suite 201

Missoula, Montana 59802

Last Updated: 11-21-2004

Compendium Resource

Reviewer Comments

Presentation
"The font is difficult to read."

Pedagogy
"Offers class and individual evaluation strategies."

"Instructional strategies are pretty vague."

Teacher Usability
"Lots of good ideas for lesson plan development."

"Many interesting ideas for class projects using the support data."

"No lesson plans per se—but would make a great G.A.T.E. curriculum."

"Needs more background information."

Focus on Communities
Most emphasis is placed on the built environment.

"A nice integration of built environment, natural resource use, recycling, and conservation."

EE Program/Resource ss Details

Provided by: NCAT Center for Resourceful Building Technology

Description: Building Our Children's Future (1996, 120 p.) is a K—12 interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on the components, systems, and design elements that make up buildings. Through 15 units, students examine the natural resources, processes, and systems used to build their homes and schools, examine resource efficiency and the use of recycled or reused materials in construction, explore ways in which climate shapes lifestyles, explore energy pathways and energy conservation, undertake architectural research projects, and develop methods to incorporate resource efficiency and healthy lifestyles (i.e. diagnosing indoor toxins and pollutants) into their own lives.

Program/Resource Type: Curriculum

Audience Served: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Cost: $10 including postage

EE Focus: Economics, Energy, Land Use, Natural Resources/Res. Mgmt., Recycling/Waste Mgmt., Sustainable Development, Technology & Society, Urban Environments, Restoration

Academic Focus: History/Social Sciences, Science, Interdisciplinary

Counties Served: Statewide

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Report Card

Overall Grade
General Content
Presentation
Pedagogy
Teacher Usability
Community

B-
B+
B-
B+
B-
B-

Discipline Emphasis

Science
History/Social Science
Health
Mathematics
Visual/Performing Arts
Language Arts
Industrial/Vocational Ed.
Foreign Language